093_HB0927 LRB093 05477 NHT 05568 b 1 AN ACT relating to higher education. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The University of Illinois Act is amended by 5 changing Section 1 as follows: 6 (110 ILCS 305/1) (from Ch. 144, par. 22) 7 Sec. 1. Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees of the 8 University of Illinois shall be a body corporate and politic, 9 and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession, 10 have power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be 11 sued, provided that any suit against the Board based upon a 12 claim sounding in tort must be filed in the Court of Claims, 13 to plead and be impleaded, to acquire, hold, and convey real 14 and personal property; to have and use a common seal, and to 15 alter the same at pleasure; to make and establish by-laws, 16 and to alter or repeal the same as they shall deem necessary, 17 for the management or government, in all its various 18 departments and relations, of the University of Illinois, for 19 the organization and endowment of which provision is made by 20 this act. 21 (Source: P.A. 84-1236.)